7.8 /10 1 Votes
8.4/10 TV No. of seasons 1 season First episode date 1977 Network NBC Program creator Joanna Lee | 7.2/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, drama, family No. of episodes 1 movie / 6 episodes Final episode date 13 December 1977 Number of seasons 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Lawrence Pressman
Elinor Donahue Running time Pilot movie: 90 mins
Series: 60 mins Production company(s) Christiana Productions
Paramount Television Cast Suzanne Crough, Elinor Donahue, Lawrence Pressman, Julie Anne Haddock, K C Martel Similar Eight Is Enough, One Day at a Time, Family Affair, Soap, Loves Me - Loves Me Not | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mulligan's Stew was an American comedy-drama television series that originally aired as a 90-minute NBC television movie on June 20, 1977, and later, as a 60-minute series from October 25, 1977 to December 13, 1977. The series focused on the lives of the Mulligan family. Lawrence Pressman starred as Michael Mulligan, a high school teacher and football coach, and Elinor Donahue played his wife, Jane, who works as a school nurse. The series was set in the fictitious Southern California community of Birchfield.
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Synopsis
Michael and Jane have three children: Mark, Melinda and Jimmy. They find making ends meet difficult, but manageable. Things get tighter moneywise and spacewise when the Mulligans take in their nephew Adam (Moose) and nieces Polaris (Polly) and Starshine (Stevie) Freedman, after their parents (Michael's sister and brother-in-law) are killed in a plane crash in Hawaii while in the process of adopting the Vietnamese-born Kimmy, leaving the Mulligans to finalize the adoption. They deal with the changes and bond as a family.
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Reception
Mulligan's Stew was scheduled opposite four Top 20 hits: Three's Company and Soap on ABC, and M*A*S*H and One Day at a Time on CBS. As a result, it suffered from dismal ratings, and was cancelled at the end of 1977.